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Zoological Science
Division |
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Zoological Sciences Division is engaged in exploration,
collection, preservation, identification and documentation
of faunistic wealth of Pakistan. Huge collection of
animals including insects, mollusks, fish, amphibians,
reptiles, birds and mammals have already been added in its
reference collection for further exploitation in applied
research. The Division conducts research in zoogeography
and biodiversity with special reference to the impact of
environmental degradation. |
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It provides advisory/
consultancy services to different organizations in
conservation of wildlife and ecosystem rehabilitation. The
Division helps in preparation of dioramas, exhibits,
pamphlets and posters related to zoological sciences. It
also imparts training in taxidermy, preservation and
curation. The scientists working in this Division are
mostly foreign trained and highly qualified. They have
published three books and more than 180 research articles
in national and foreign journals. The Division organized
an International biodiversity expedition “ Hunza-2000” in
collaboration with University of Oxford, U.K. and Florida
Museum of Natural History, USA to document high altitude
biodiversity and ecology of Northern Areas. The Expedition
represented the most comprehensive biological survey ever
undertaken in the high altitudes. The Expedition was an
extension of a 7-year long research collaboration on
butterflies between Pakistan Museum of Natural History and
Oxford University Natural History Museum. The Expedition
not only helped in extending knowledge of Himalayan-Karakoram
biodiversity but also provided baseline data for the
future assessment of environmental change. |
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